Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing Principles and the Contradictions of Practice

[Art Gorski (agorski]

> 1. Do you feel it's necessary or appropriate to have one person with
> absolute power to perform it?

Absolutely.  Yes.  Listserv moderation is not a democracy.  On the 
internet you vote with your feet and go start a listserv that meets 
your needs.

> 2. Do you feel it appropriate that he should do so without providing 
> any
> formal statement of the standards on which this censorship is based?

Sure.  He owns the list.

> I don't mean to kick up a fuss, but this list hasn't been working for 
> me
> lately. I almost simply unsubscribed a few minutes ago, but then read
> Sheila Braun's posting about discrimination, which somehow made me feel
> I ought to at least run this up the flagpole before I walk away.  Thank
> you for your consideration.

I've been tempted to unsubscribe a number of times myself as a lurker, 
not a poster that gets 'censored'.  But that's because of the POSTS, 
not because of the moderator.

Art Gorski    <http://is.rice.edu/~agorski/>
90% Houston, Texas and 10% Prescott, Arizona

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